From the article:
Masood Ahmed, president of the Center for Global Development (CGD) thinktank, says that the first six months of Malpass’s presidency had not been like that of Kim who “set the bar” for reorganisation.
“He is low key in his engagement with people,” Ahmed says. “He’s willing to learn, and he’s quite interested in rolling up his sleeves and sitting down. What I gather from talking to people who work inside the institution, they’re all like, ‘you know, he is much easier to work with’.”
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Particularly at a time when Chinese-funded development institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development bank are investing in traditional infrastructure such as rail lines and ports, the World Bank should focus on looking at how the global public goods dimension is fed into the middle income relationship, Ahmed believes. “They should certainly not think of this as pulling back in a numerical sense,” he says. “I just don’t see the logic of it.”
